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you are watching this at home and you are discouraged and you are feeling we just reelected barack obama, what the heck is going on? you have to get involved yourself. go down and join your local democratic party in your county or town. i can guarantee you if you show up at next month's meeting of the county or town democrats, there won't be ten people there. bring ten of your friends and you will become your county's democratic party. >> jennifer: and a lot of them will be old people and they will be so happy to see young people coming in too. >> yes they will. we moved up north to [ inaudible ] county, and when we moved up there, back in the early part of the last decade, there was a total of four dues paying members of the democratic party in northern michigan so my wife and i went to work on this, and within a year we had almost 300 members of the dues paying party. so you can make this happen. we hold the power -- >> jennifer: i got to inject something, though. because in antrum county in northern michigan, it is a conservative area, and michael and his wife kathleen have come in an
you are watching this at home and you are discouraged and you are feeling we just reelected barack obama, what the heck is going on? you have to get involved yourself. go down and join your local democratic party in your county or town. i can guarantee you if you show up at next month's meeting of the county or town democrats, there won't be ten people there. bring ten of your friends and you will become your county's democratic party. >> jennifer: and a lot of them will be old people and...
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we just overwhelmingly re-elected president obama and senator debbie stabenow. pro-woman, pro-worker people. that's what this state wants and that's not what we're getting in the executive office right now here in michigan. >> jennifer: i know that you have to be -- you and your senate colleagues, have to be pulling your hair out. i know you've been in the minority in the senate for awhile. you were in the minority when i was there but at least we had a house as a backstop. now this ramrodding of stuff through the legislature has got to take a toll, i would imagine on senate relations. how are they? >> there's no question that there is nothing more divisive that this governor could have pushed through in a lame duck session. in any part of session but doing it during lame duck is especially gut-churning because we saw seven republicans lose their seats in the last two years because people reject this kind of extreme divisive agenda. it is like they drop an atomic bomb on the place. no one should be surprised if the environment on every single issue before us has
we just overwhelmingly re-elected president obama and senator debbie stabenow. pro-woman, pro-worker people. that's what this state wants and that's not what we're getting in the executive office right now here in michigan. >> jennifer: i know that you have to be -- you and your senate colleagues, have to be pulling your hair out. i know you've been in the minority in the senate for awhile. you were in the minority when i was there but at least we had a house as a backstop. now this...
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the obamas put together a plan. if you jack up the rates on the top earners you'll get more money, and more money will be withheld from their salaries and they'll owe more at the end of the year. by contrast if you talk about ways of eliminating deductions without saying which ones they are, that doesn't get you far. that's been in the conversation for the la many years in washington. >> jennifer: carrie, you talked about a compromise. in a way to give the republicans a way of saving face, they might put forth a bill that the republicans vote present on. how likely is that? >> we did see that report yesterday, i think the speaker boehner really refuted that or. i think the plan at some point but it's not the plan now. a lot of these stories, they will be corrected at some point in time, and we may get to that point defending how things play out over the next two weeks. it really is, as we look at december 17th, which is two weeks from yesterday and it's a week before christmas and there's nothing happening we could
the obamas put together a plan. if you jack up the rates on the top earners you'll get more money, and more money will be withheld from their salaries and they'll owe more at the end of the year. by contrast if you talk about ways of eliminating deductions without saying which ones they are, that doesn't get you far. that's been in the conversation for the la many years in washington. >> jennifer: carrie, you talked about a compromise. in a way to give the republicans a way of saving...
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vote against barber and obama. >> jennifer: okay. so this was a campaign ad and the campaign ad was financed by this saudi-led oil lobby group. how can a saudi-led foreign entity fund a campaign commercial in america? >> well, the citizens united decision in 2010 opened significant loopholes for these tiepts of problems -- these types of problems. essentially, everyone talks about super pacs. most of them -- most super pacs are funded by individuals. but citizens united also enabled trade associations which historically have been fund and led by foreigners on to act as a campaign committee. the only difference is that trade associations don't have to disclose during the election. so a lot of foreign -- >> jennifer: so it is even worse than what you would find from a corporation giving because a trade association not only can have foreign money but it doesn't have to disclose. >> foreign money and foreign leadership in the case of american petroleum institute where one of the board members is an actual registered lobbyist for the gove
vote against barber and obama. >> jennifer: okay. so this was a campaign ad and the campaign ad was financed by this saudi-led oil lobby group. how can a saudi-led foreign entity fund a campaign commercial in america? >> well, the citizens united decision in 2010 opened significant loopholes for these tiepts of problems -- these types of problems. essentially, everyone talks about super pacs. most of them -- most super pacs are funded by individuals. but citizens united also enabled...
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he's author of "the obama hate machine." the lies, distortions and personal attacks on the president and who is behind them and he's somebody who follows this stuff night and day in d.c. bill, so glad to have you back inside "the war room." especially on an unbelievable news breaking day like today. >> bill: hey governor, it is great to join you. thank you. >> jennifer: are you surprised by susan rice dropping out? >> bill: you know what? i'm surprised and i'm disappointed. i gotta tell you i think she's a great, great american. i know her well. if i had to pick the top three female leaders in this country today, i would say hillary clinton, jennifer granholm and susan rice. [ laughter ] >> jennifer: you are so funny. bill press for -- we'll put you for secretary of labor. why don't we do that. >> bill: all right. hilda sol ease is another one. here's what's sad about this is i think she deserved to be secretary of state. i think she would make a great secretary of state. and i hate to see her drummed out of there by john mc
he's author of "the obama hate machine." the lies, distortions and personal attacks on the president and who is behind them and he's somebody who follows this stuff night and day in d.c. bill, so glad to have you back inside "the war room." especially on an unbelievable news breaking day like today. >> bill: hey governor, it is great to join you. thank you. >> jennifer: are you surprised by susan rice dropping out? >> bill: you know what? i'm surprised and...
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and mitt romney won the state by a 3 to 2 margin over president obama. in fact, democrats have not won a statewide office in texas since 1994. 1994. bi with democratic-leaning hispanic growing to 38% of the state population, you wonder: is the crimson tide receding? coming to us with an answer we hope is wayne slater the senior political writer for the dallas morning news. wayne is joining us from austin. wayne, world cup inside the war room. >> great to be with you governor. >> all right. so do you think texas could really go blue? >> it looks that way. the only question is not whether texas is going to move to purple and then blue but when. i think 2014, as some democrats suggest, when rick perry, the aforementioned rick perry is up for reelection is probably too early. all of the signs here if we really talk to the smart guys on the republican -- democrat side suggest by 2016, 2018, you very well may see a democrat or democrats begin to win statewide e elections for the first time since you correctly said first time since 1994. >> okay. is rick perry
and mitt romney won the state by a 3 to 2 margin over president obama. in fact, democrats have not won a statewide office in texas since 1994. 1994. bi with democratic-leaning hispanic growing to 38% of the state population, you wonder: is the crimson tide receding? coming to us with an answer we hope is wayne slater the senior political writer for the dallas morning news. wayne is joining us from austin. wayne, world cup inside the war room. >> great to be with you governor. >> all...